"Before we unleash the split project with BLACKLODGE, which took larger and more monumental forms than we first conceived (and, how could it be possible NOT to expand and delay something true to its infinitely flowing, fluctuating and interlocking concept of 'Time vs:sv nataS'), the next in a line of forthcoming releases will be an ultimate link between ABIGOR's past, present and future.

"16 years since we first joined forces under the banner of ABIGOR, 10 years since its original release on Napalm Records, two years since Peter Kubik and T.T. [Thomas Tannenberger] reunited and A.R. [Arthur Rosar] and End All Life reinforced this unit to execute the devil's work (as well as to our own self-realization, illumination, plenary indulgence and the lashing of our minds), we bring forth a new version of an album written in 1998 and first recorded in early winter 1999, 'Channelling The Quintessence Of Satan'.

"The original recording was a landmark in ABIGOR's history. On one hand, it represented the perfection of the imperfect method how we prepared, accomplished and engineered our visions in the '90s. On the other hand, it also marked the end of the second ABIGOR trinity, with both Silenius (during the recordings) and T.T. (after the recordings) quit the service. 'Channelling The Quintessence Of Satan' should have been the ultimate peak in the string of our releases in the past century, yet due to reasons inherent in the original version as well as external ones, this album never glared in its full glory.

"This is about to change.

"On the foundation of the original drum and guitar tracks recorded on the first two days of the session at Hörnix studio in '99, seven hymns have been revised, reshaped and reworked. Above all, new arrangements, new edits, new bass, new vocals and a new sound constitute an exception to the ordinary 'remastered re-releases' or common re-recordings of old songs. This is a marriage of ABIGOR's past with our current vision of uncompromising black metal — ten years old Hörnix material interwoven with new recordings made at Hell-lab. In its new form, this album — even more than the '93 demos or the '97 opus 'Apokalypse' — underlines ABIGOR's thrust in a distinct 'style' that manifested in a post-millennial wave of so-called underground black metal.

"Set for a release in June or latest July, it is the first in a new line of upcoming works (the split CD and DLP with BLACKLODGE in late summer, the 7" demo box in fall and the true successor of 'Fractal Possession', a new full-length album in late 2009) to honour the shining spirit who has many names, to feel the aspiration of his omnipresence, to unlock the secret inherent in the reversal creation, to administer a sacrifice to the horns that lurk beyond the stars."

Nox

Posted 19-05-2009 0:50 by Nox

En dan dit nog...

Apokalypse/Origo Regium-CD has been released without any participation or approval of the band!

Recently another CD has been released without any participation or approval of the band: a questionable combination of our Apokalypse EP and the demo-compilation CD Origio Regium.
If asked, we would have never accepted such a conceptionally inacceptable combination, with such a layout and such a sound!
Yet, as we don..t own the rights, it is possible that various record companies can release what THEY want as soon as they buy the rights from NAPALM, without even asking us for improvements.
If you want to get ALL our demo tracks in better and also suitable sound
(the Origio Regium tracks have been digitally reworked at Hörnix with poor reverb and
other unsuitable effects) wait for the coming 7" demo box on END ALL LIFE later this year - it will include all the original lay-outs, have a well-processed sound directly from the masters (already done) and will incorporate each track, not just a selection.
If you want to hear Apokalypse, try to get the original NAPALM RECORDS CD,
with proper layout, and pressed directly from the master.
Apokalypse will sooner or later be released on vinyl with better sound.
Labels interested in such a release should inquire directly at NAPALM RECORDS for a
license and the band for a new master-CD and layout (both provided by us in best quality, as it should be).
16 years faithful for the ones faithful - and onward! / ABIGOR

We are proud to present you some first impressions of things to come in the line of coming releases - here the split project with BLACKLODGE.

These samples are rough instrumental previews - no processing/mixdown whatsoever has been applied.
Although the end result will certainly differ (not only because of the vocals), you can already judge if we succeeded in laying down another work to place the seed of the devil into the heart and soul of man.

This split with BLACKLODGE features 2 ABIGOR tracks (therefore 2 preview samples, one of each track) with a total running time of almost 35 minutes and will be released on END ALL LIFE in CD & LP format in fall 2009."

The recordings of the basic instrumental tracks for the ABIGOR/BLACKLODGE split-project are finally concluded, hence only vocals and synthetic additions (which, due to it..s concept and topic, will be featured on this, but not on the following album!) are missing.
The running time of ABIGOR's part, consiting of 2 chapters, will be about 35 minutes. Not only from the running time, but also due to the level of musical progression (which, opposed to the nostalgic and romantic picture of these laughable pseudo-underground romantics, is crucial in such an extreme and uncompromising artform as Satanic Black Metal), it is a piece of work as important as a regular full-lenght album and moves on sonic territories that Fractal Possession hasn..t touched."

"The recordings for the new [ABIGOR] album (the joint venture with [French black metal group] BLACKLODGE, where both [bands] have worked on the same topic and the release will be a split or at least parallel) are finally completed, at this very moment the mix is laid down, and mastering is scheduled for October 11. Expect a release on End All Life soon!

"The album is truly a monument (a word often used, but hardly ever justified) that makes the profound and inevitable link between Satan and all man painfully visible like few others, if any, have before. Through the 'subject' of time, the album is exactly at the centre of human existence, the metamorphosis that's possible when flesh becomes one with His principle — gloria victoria!"